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GIGA Ph.D. Candidates - Petermann

Miriam Shabafrouz, Dipl.-Sowi.

GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies
Leibniz-Institut für Globale und Regionale Studien
Neuer Jungfernstieg 21
20354 Hamburg
Germany

Phone: +49 (0)40 - 428 25-537
Fax: +49 (0)40 - 428 25-511

Email:

Shabafrouz

Biographical data:

  • Born in 1980
  • Education: French-German Double Degree in Social Sciences of the University of Stuttgart and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux (1999-2005)
  • Professional career :
2005-2006: Internship at the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) (6 months)
2006: Internship at the Institute of Development and Peace (INEF), Duisburg
Since 2007: Research Fellow at the GIGA, research project "Is Resource Wealth a Risk Factor? On the Importance of Contextual Conditions for the Connection Between Natural Resources and Violence in Non-OECD States" (Analyses of Iran and Algeria)

 

Current research:

  • Abundance in natural resources and violent conflict

 

Third-party funded project:

  • "Is Resource Wealth a Risk Factor? On the Importance of Contextual Conditions for the Connection Between Natural Resources and Violence in Non-OECD States" (DFG)

 

Publications (selection):

  • 2010: Fuel for Conflict or Balm for Peace? Assessing the Effects of Hydrocarbons on Peace Efforts in Algeria, GIGA Working Paper No 132, April 2010, Hamburg (Abstract & full article)
  • 2010: Oil and the Eruption of the Algerian Civil War: A Context-sensitive Analysis of the Ambivalent Impact of Resource Abundance, GIGA Working Paper No 118, January 2010, Hamburg (Abstract & full article)
  • 2009: Iran‘s Oil Wealth: Treasure and Trouble for the Shah‘s Regime. A Context-sensitive Analysis of the Ambivalent Impact of Resource Abundance, GIGA Working Paper No 113, November 2009, Hamburg (Abstract & full article)
  • 2008: Irans turbulente Außenbeziehungen und der Faktor Erdöl, Welttrends, Vol. 58, 1/2008, Potsdam, S. 41-54
  • 2008: Traum von einem besseren Leben. Zenith 2/2008, Hamburg S. 26-28
  • 2007 (mit Matthias Basedau und Annegret Mähler): Risiko Ressourcenreichtum? In: eins, Entwicklungspolitik Informationen Nord-Süd (erscheint in Kürze)
  • 2007 (mit Martin Beck): Iran – gewichtiger Gegenspieler westlicher Interessen. GIGA Focus Nahost, Nr. 2/2007, Hamburg: GIGA (Volltext)
  • 2006 (mit Annabelle Houdret): Privatisation in Deep Water? Water Governance and Options for Development Cooperation. INEF Report 84/2006 (Institut für Entwicklung und Frieden, Duisburg), November 2006 (Volltext)

 

Vorträge:

  • Machtquelle Erdöl: Die Auswirkungen der Erdölpreissteigerungen auf die Politik der Produzentenländer. Beispiel Algerien. Vortrag beim Deutschen Orientalistentag/DAVO, 24.-28.9.2007
  • Opening the black box of the Rentier states’ rents. ECPR graduate conference, 25.-27.8.2008

 

Update: April 23, 2010

 
 
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